Aral BalkanCapitalism is a death cult.
Linda Huber
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PhD candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information studying platform economies. Educating, agitating, organizing. she/her
BoltsMag.orgA new Missouri law ends St. Louis’ ability to run its own police, transferring control to the GOP-run state government. The new law, backed by police unions, also requires St. Louis to commit 25 percent of its budget to policing by 2028. https://boltsmag.org/missouri-state-control-of-st-louis-police/
evacideFor people who are concerned about crossing the US border, The Verge and Wired both have useful discussion and advice:
https://www.theverge.com/policy/634264/customs-border-protection-search-phone-airport-rights
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/guide-getting-past-customs-digital-privacy-intact/
[shameless crosspost] I made a shareable version of our "AI workers' inquiry for University Workers and Students." We used this as part a workshop here last semester. Feel free to re-use, improve, and reach out if you wanna compare notes on running a similar workshop at your uni! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R7nIeolGibbFaCDAoMR2AA5xXTHsyylGbdo6K5lMe6k/
AI workers' inquiry_shareable
AI Workers’ Inquiry for University Workers and Students Goals Understanding the impact of AI on workers and students: How is AI being promoted within our departments? How is it impacting our work as students, staff, teachers? Critically interrogating the phenomenon of AI hype at our university: ...
The second part of this panel will include a Data Solidarities Workshop, using ideas introduced through the short presentations to engage in speculative co-design for a theory and praxis of data solidarities.
DEADLINE: Jan 31
Submit here: https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_seattle.php
See you in Seattle?
🚨 Call for abstracts! 🚨 I'm co-facilitating a 4S open panel on DATA VIOLENCE//DATA SOLIDARITIES. We are looking for scholarly, activist, and creative work exploring modes of resistance and solidarity in the face of data violence - e.g. environmental, colonial, and representational violence.
Nurses secure AI protections - "New contract language will ensure nurses have a say in the implementation of new technology like artificial intelligence to ensure it enhances, not diminishes, patient care" https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/innovation/nurses-secure-ai-protections-from-hca.html
Sebastian DeterdingI used to think science and scholarship is the collective construction of a systematic edifice of knowledge, brick by brick.
That metaphor no longer rings true. I think generation after generation, we swim in a foggy ocean of irreducible uncertainty, facing the next wave before us, drawing on the skills of reasoning and observation handed down and occasional flotsam of past ideas to make the least stupid choices we can today, forever.
We must imagine this swimmer happy.
FarhadThe Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) commends the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) for dropping its biased, unethical policy opposing academic boycotts, which was primarily aimed at shielding Israeli universities from accountability for their egregious human rights violations.
PACBI salutes all those who worked tirelessly to push the #AAUP to change its position, as well as the conscientious academics, students, and progressive academic associations that have for years advocated for ending #US academic institutional complicity with Israel’s 76-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and #apartheid and, in the process, challenging AAUP’s hypocrisy. Without their persistent protests and intellectual challenges, without the student-led encampments reenergizing campus campaigns for academic #boycott and divestment in response to #Israel’s #Gaza #genocide, the AAUP would not have reversed its ethically and logically untenable policy.
Read the full statement: loom.ly/XeOI7XY
#Palestine #Politics #Humanrights #US #USPolitics #Protectionism #Impunity
@palestine @israel
The Stallman reportWe, the anonymous editors of the Stallman report, have published our investigation of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation today to a general audience:
Our report exhaustively catalogues, analyzes, and offers a rebuttal of Richard Stallman's political program of sexual violence, catalogues credible allegations of misconduct, and documents the misconduct of the #FSF circa 2019 and 2021. Please read and share our work.
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The Stallman report
October 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors and “Chief GNUisance” of the GNU project. He is responsible for innumerable contributions to the free software movement, setting its guiding principles, organizing political action, and directly contributing to a flourishing free software ecosystem. The majority of Stallman’s political activity has been of priceless value to society at large.